Hydra Lestrange Finch-Fletchley

The sense of festivity that was in the castle a month ago seem far, far away now.

Sometimes I catch myself gazing out the window of the library. The snow blows off the turrets like puffs of breath, if you watch long enough. I would like to go outside and find tiny, tiny tracks to follow into the forest. I would like to find a pond for ice skating. It would be lovely to skate on a pond in the forest, with the sunlight trickling through the overhead branches.

Well, that's just a daydream, and it's all there's time for. There's ever so much to do.

The Arithmancy study group would go better if it didn't always end with a row over vibrational algorithms.

Marjoram, Corey... I'm sorry, but I really don't know which of you is right. Corey, your method is faster, but Marjoram's is more like what Professor Vector had in her lesson. Effluvia, it isn't really fair to automatically take Marjoram's side just because she's in your house. Corey's in my house and I don't automatically take his side. I think it's best to explore all sides of an issue before making one's mind up. So, tomorrow I'm going to Professor Vector's office to ask her myself.

I was already in her office yesterday. She worked up a study schedule for me, so that I can keep up with the lessons a little better. But I was already studying MORE than what she put on the schedule I'm sure that I'll do better than an A by the end-of-term exams.

Other than that, there's not really much happening, is there? Well, not for most of the third-years. Some of them will be going to an event on Saturday, as it turns out. I thought it was for CCF but I suppose not. Beauxbatons will be there, and some different Hogwarts students, including third-years who of course aren't in CCF yet. Nobody really knows why some people were chosen and others weren't. I wish someone would say But I should use that time to study, anyway.